* This is unstable development release. While it has had a bit of testing, there are certainly plenty of bugs remaining to be found. This release should not be used in production.

* Installing this version will overwrite your existing copy of GLib 2.6. If you have problems, you'll need to reinstall GLib 2.6.5.

* GLib 2.8 will be source and binary compatible with the GLib 2.6.x series. The new API additions in GLib 2.7.x are finalized at this point, and GLib 2.7.x should be considered API frozen. Unless serious issues with the new APIs come up, there will be no API changes between this release and the 2.8.0 release.

* Remaining issues for GLib 2.8 can be found with the following bugzilla query:

GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis for projectssuch as GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C,portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality asan event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system.